“If I hadn’t been there, would you have made up some story for Reed?” Marconi continued as if she hadn’t interrupted. “That he hadn’t confessed, that he’d simply shot himself?” “And let Viola rot in prison?” Gretchen surmised. The answer of course was yes, but Gretchen didn’t want to break Marconi’s little empath heart. “I guess we’ll never know.” Marconi seemed to see through her anyway. “Even though you were falsely accused?” Gretchen looked away. But contrary to what Marconi seemed to think, Gretchen didn’t see herself in Viola. She saw herself in Sebastian. “You don’t know that,” Gretchen
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